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| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
生命 see styles |
shēng mìng sheng1 ming4 sheng ming seimei / seme せいめい |
More info & calligraphy: Life Force(1) life; existence; (n,n-suf) (2) (See 役者生命) (one's) working life; career; (3) (occ. read いのち) life force; lifeblood; soul; essence |
一如 see styles |
yī rú yi1 ru2 i ju ichinyo いちにょ |
to be just like oneness; (personal name) Kazuyuki The one ru, i.e. the bhūtatathatā, or absolute, as the norm and essence of life. The 眞如 true suchness, or true character, or reality; the 法性 nature of things or beings. The whole of things as they are, or seem; a cosmos; a species; things of the same order. Name of a celebrated monk, Yiru. V. 一眞; 一實. |
元神 see styles |
yuán shén yuan2 shen2 yüan shen motogami もとがみ |
primordial spirit; fundamental essence of life (surname) Motogami |
妙中 see styles |
miào zhōng miao4 zhong1 miao chung taenaka たえなか |
(surname) Taenaka The profound medium (madhya); the universal life essence, the absolute, the bhūtatathatā which expresses the unity of all things, i.e. the doctrine held by Tiantai as distinguished from the 別教 which holds the madhya doctrine but emphasizes the dichotomy of the 空 transcendental and 假 phenomenal. |
性命 see styles |
xìng mìng xing4 ming4 hsing ming shōmyō |
life The life of conscious beings; nature and life. |
精気 see styles |
seiki / seki せいき |
(mind and) spirit; life energy; vitality; essence |
薩埵 萨埵 see styles |
sà duǒ sa4 duo3 sa to satta さった |
(1) {Buddh} sattva (sentient beings); (2) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 菩提薩埵) bodhisattva; (3) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 金剛薩埵) Vajrasattva sattva, being, existence, essence, nature, life, sense, consciousness, substance, any living or sentient being, etc. M.W. Tr. by 情 sentient, 有情 possessing sentience, feeling, or consciousness; and by 衆生 all the living. Abbrev. for bodhisattva. Also 薩多婆; 薩怛嚩; 索埵, etc. |
佛具十身 see styles |
fó jù shí shēn fo2 ju4 shi2 shen1 fo chü shih shen butsugu jūshin |
The ten perfect bodies or characteristics of Buddha: (1) 菩提身 Bodhi-body in possession of complete enlightenment. (2) 願身 Vow-body, i.e. the vow to be born in and from the Tuṣita heaven. (3) 化身 nirmāṇakāya, Buddha incarnate as a man. (4) 住持身 Buddha who still occupies his relics or what he has left behind on earth and thus upholds the dharma. (5) 相好莊嚴身 saṁbhogakāya, endowed with an idealized body with all Buddha marks and merits. (6) 勢力身 or 心佛 Power-body, embracing all with his heart of mercy. (7) 如意身 or 意生身 At will body, appearing according to wish or need. (8) 福德身 or 三昧身 samādhi body, or body of blessed virtue. (9) 智身 or 性佛 Wisdom-body, whose nature embraces all wisdom. (10) 法身 dharmakāya, the absolute Buddha, or essence of all life. |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
This page contains 8 results for "Essence of Life" in Chinese and/or Japanese.Information about this dictionary:
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Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House
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